Books aren't just what we do...

... they're who we are. We become the sum total of our reading experiences - the romance, the adventures, the coming-of-age, the fantasy, the dare-to-believe. At kt literary, we want to be more.

Madeleine L'Engle once said, "You have to write whichever book it is that wants to be written. And then, if it's going to be too difficult for grown-ups, you write it for children." Write for children. Write for adults. Write for yourself. And then, when you're ready to find a literary agent to take your work to the next level, think of us.

kt literary is a full-service literary agency operating out of Highlands Ranch, in the suburbs of Denver, Colorado, where every major publishing house is merely a phone call away. We believe in the power of new technology to connect writers to readers, and authors to editors. We bring over a decade of experience in the New York publishing scene, an extensive list of contacts, and a lifetime love of reading to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains.

And did we mention our boundless optimism?

kt literary client Maureen Johnson, author of 13 LITTLE BLUE ENVELOPES and SUITE SCARLETT, says, "Kate's high level of organization makes Martha Stewart look like an amateur and a punk. She stays three steps ahead, so I can concentrate on my writing. It's an act of madness for me to encourage new clients. I don't want to share her!" (reference: maureen@maureenjohnsonbooks.com)

Maureen Johnson, Stephanie Perkins, Tom Sniegoski, Josie Bloss, Ellen Booraem, Matthew Cody, S. Terrell French, and Lili Wilkinson.

THE NAME OF THE STAR by Maureen Johnson, ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS by Stephanie Perkins, THE FALLEN series by Tom Sniegoski, ALBALTROSS by Josie Bloss, SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS by Ellen Booraem, POWERLESS by Matthew Cody... and more!

Please see my Dealmaker page for my latest sales.

NYT bestselling author of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs's ARCANUM, about two teenaged brothers who discover a cache of sinister magical objects and must fight for survival when a mysterious killer begins to hunt them down, to Connie Hsu at Little, Brown, in a two-book deal, for publication in Spring 2014, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).

NYT bestselling author Thomas Sniegoski's END OF DAYS from THE FALLEN series, previously an ABC Family miniseries, to Annette Pollert at Simon Pulse, for publication in Fall 2011, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World).

Maureen Johnson's THE NAME OF THE STAR, in the new YA series SHADES OF LONDON, in which American high-school student moves to London where she enrols in an elite boarding school; soon after her arrival, a series of murders begin to take place - on the exact dates and in the exact style of Jack the Ripper; as she is drawn into the sensational media frenzy around the crimes, she is brought into contact with a secret paranormal branch of the British police...and a terrifying mystery that points towards the Ripper's return, to Rachel Denwood of Harper Children's UK, in a two-book deal, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary.

Author of SMALL PERSONS WITH WINGS and THE UNNAMEABLES Ellen Booraem's CONNOR'S BANSHEE, in which a Irish-American boy is visited by a banshee prophetizing death for someone in his family, again to Kathy Dawson at Dial, in a nice deal, for publication in Spring 2012, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World).

Author of ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS and the Fall 2011 title LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR, Stephanie Perkins's ISLA AND THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER, again to Julie Strauss-Gabel at Dutton Children's, in a nice deal for publication in Fall 2012, by Kate Schafer Testerman at kt literary (World English).

Please see my Dealmaker page for my latest sales.

French rights to Josie Bloss's novel BAND GEEK LOVE(Flux, July 2008) to Bayard.

Portuguese rights in Brazil to ARCANUM + UNTITLED by Ransom Riggs (Little Brown, forthcoming) to Intrinseca, at auction.

Foreign rights to THE NAME OF THE STAR by Maureen Johnson (Putnam, September 2011) sold in 11 territories, including French, German, Italian, Hebrew, Dutch, Croatian, Chinese, British, Greek, Russian, and Portuguese in Brazil.

10 years of experience at Janklow & Nesbit Associates
Two years working in children's and adult foreign and domestic rights at Houghton Mifflin Co.

China and Taiwan
Bardon-Chinese Media Agency
3F,No. 150 Roosevelt Road, Sec. 2,
Taipei,Taiwan 100
tel: +886 2 2364 4995
fax: +886 2 2364 1967
www.bardonchinese.com
joanne@bardon.com.tw

Eastern Europe
Prava I Prevodi
Yu-Business Centre
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina 10B/I
5th Floor, Suite 4
11070 Belgrade
SERBIA
tel: +381 11 301 6141
fax: +381 11 311 9879
ana@pravaiprevodi.org

France
Agence Eliane Benisti
80, rue des Saints-Peres
75007 Paris
tel: +33 1 4222 8533
fax: +33 1 4544 1817
noemie@elianebenisti.com

Germany
Thomas Schlueck GmbH
Hinter der Worth 12
D-30827 Garbsen
tel:+49 5131 4975 68
fax:+49 5131 4975 868
www.schlueckagent.com
b.schlueck@schlueckagent.com

Greece
Prava I Prevodi
Yu-Business Centre
Blvd. Mihaila Pupina 10B/I
5th Floor, Suite 4
11070 Belgrade
SERBIA
tel: +381 11 301 6141
fax: +381 11 311 9879
ana@pravaiprevodi.org

Israel
I. Pikarski Ltd. Literary Agency
200 Hayarkon Street
63406 Tel Aviv
tel:+972 3 5270159
fax:+972 3 5270160
dalia@pikarskiagency.co.il

Italy
Gabriella Ambrosioni S.r.l. Literary Agency
via San Giorgio, 1
40121 Bologna
tel:+39 051 2961 096
fax:+39 051 2914 000
www.gabriellaambrosioni.com
gabriella@gabriellaambrosioni.com

Korea
Imprima Korea Agency
3F Mijin Bldg.
464-41 Seokyo-dong, Mapo-gu
Seoul 121-841
tel: +82 2 325 9155
fax: +82 2 334 9160
www.imprima.co.kr
jenniferahn@imprima.co.kr

Kate Schafer Testerman, Founder and Agent
kate@ktliterary.com

Rebecca Mancini, Subsidiary Rights
mancinirj@verizon.net

To submit to kt literary, please email us at queries@ktliterary.com. Queries should not contain attachments; if you'd like to include two or three pages of your manuscript (at the most), please do so within the body of the email. Attachments will not be read. We aim to reply to all queries within two weeks of receipt. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.ktliterary.com/submissions.html